The My Computer folder can be accessed in three different places on the computer and does exactly the same thing in all three places. You can find the My Computer folder on the computer's desktop, on ...

Q: The folders listed under Documents in my Windows 7 PC are duplicated in LibrariesDocuments. Actually, I seem to have three Documents folders. Which is the real My Documents? A: There is only one ...

Q: Every time I right-click a photo on the Web and choose Save Picture As . . ., the default folder where Windows wants to save it is My Pictures. Likewise, when I go to insert a photo into a Word or ...

There's something vaguely twee and more than a bit annoying about the folder on Windows computers called 'My Documents'. To start with, there's no reason for the 'My' prefix: they're documents, and of ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a PhD candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside and the Congressman George Brown Graduate Intern for the Special Collections at Rivera Library.

If you haven't been organizing and discarding files as you go, it's likely your hard drive is stuffed with downloads, unwanted photos, file copies and other digital dust bunnies. This can reveal ...

Memory sticks provide a convenient method of transferring files from one computer to another. The inexpensive sticks act as temporary drives in your computer and can be easily detached and attached to ...

Open File Explorer (earlier called Windows Explorer) by clicking on the Folder looking icon on the Taskbar. Under Quick access on the left side, there must be a folder named Documents. Click on it, ...

The "My Documents" folder path contains a variable username component and changes from one user to another. It is possible to write a code in VBA or VB6 to access the "My Documents" folder regardless ...

Well, I am having a problem.<BR><BR>We are redirecting user's My Documents to their home drive by using Group Policy. Everything should be fine and working, but for ...

With the Windows end-of-service deadline finally upon us, a lot of holdouts are hurriedly making the upgrade to Windows 7 or 8. Moving all your important files from Windows XP to your new computer may ...